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The fourth season of the Maharashtra Chess league 2016 was off to a rocking start as a bucket full of opportunities were grabbed and left behind. Full of interesting games in rapid time controls, this fourth season already saw a leader at the end of the very first round and the leaders do know how to navigate the tournament best — they dominated the second round! Yet another heavily illustrated report.
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Vishy Anand defeated Anton Guijarro and Wei Yi got the better of Santosa Latasa. The Indian champion now faces the Chinese prodigy in the Leon finals. It will be a match of four rapid games with a time control of 20 minutes + 10 second increment. The game begins live at 8 p.m. IST. (4.30 p.m. Leon time) on 12th of June. Do not miss this unique match between the ex and the future World Champion!
Vishy Anand is in Spain and is taking part in a three day rapid event in Leon. Local boys Anton Guijarro and Santosa Latasa took on Vishy Anand and Wei Yi respectively. Both the favourites won their match which brings us to the mouth watering finals clash between Vishy Anand and Wei Yi that will take place on Sunday. As of now we have the analysis of the four rapid games in which Anand was able to overcome his young Spanish opponent.
The fourth season of the Maharashtra Chess league 2016 was off to a rocking start as a bucket full of opportunities were grabbed and left behind. Full of interesting games in rapid time controls, this fourth season already saw a leader at the end of the very first round. A heavily illustrated report.
The fourth edition of the Maharashtra Chess League (MCL), the only professional league of India, is being held from June 11 -15, 2016 at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Pune. The six-team event with six players a side will be a rapid tournament (25mins + 10 sec increment) where the teams initially play a round-robin followed by a knockout between four teams to decide the winners. Vibrant, unsaturated and youthful, Pune is the future of Maharashtra, and the chess circle here is already booming. An illustrated introduction to the MCL 2016.
India is a cricket crazy nation. You can see people playing cricket just about everywhere. However, the game of chess is fast catching up. The suburb of Bandra, near the western coast of Mumbai is taking some extra-ordinary steps to bring the 64 squared game to the masses. A visit to the Carter Road will give you the unparalleled experience of playing chess on marble chess boards while enjoying the beautiful view of the Arabian Sea! A pictorial by Prashant Mullick.
The seventh round witnessed a host of upsets — the top-seed Ivan Popov was shocked once again while Diptayan walked into the sole lead with a beautiful win over Shyaamnikhil. The eighth round was fairly sedate at the top with no 'shocking' results. But pursuing Diptayan were Himal Gusain, Visakh NR,and Boris Grachev of Russia, etc. IM Visakh NR (2400) was a full point behind Diptayan going into the eighth round, but then, just as in the 'Hare and Tortoise' story, he gained on his rival and ended up winning the tournament on the tiebreak. An illustrated report.
Bharat Singh Chauhan is a noted International Organiser and the President of Delhi Chess Association. He is also the CEO of the All India Chess Federation (AICF), Deputy President of the Asian Chess Federation, Chairman of the Commonwealth Chess Association, and the Chairman of the FIDE Technical Commission. To the chessplayers in India, he is better known as the organiser of the best tournament in India in terms of quality and the prize fund. ChessBase India did an in-depth interview with Mr. Chauhan, who talked about chess in India, the work of AICF in developing chess, his ideas of making chess richer and spectator friendly, nurturing of young talents, entrepreneurship, the economics of chess, chess in schools programme, and more. Here is the second of our three-part interview.
The seventh round was eventful in more than one ways — the top board saw the clash between the two leaders and a handful of youngsters took on the might of their more fancied rivals. The games were fun! The top seed Ivan Popov was shocked once again while Diptayan walked into the sole lead with a beautiful win over Shyaamnikhil. An illustrated report.
Six rounds have come to close at the Mumbai Mayor's Cup 2016 and it can be safely said that Indians are ruling the tournament. In the standings, eight Indians occupy the top ten spots. As usual, there was a load of upsets and we bring you an illustrated report.
The Melbourne Chess Club celebrated its 150th anniversary by holding a tournament to determine the Grand Champion. Strong IMs like James Morris, Ari Dale. Guy West and Mirko Rujevic took part in the event. Although James Morris won the event, it was Vishal Bhat, 15-year-old boy of Indian origin with a rating of 1967, who made the headlines by finishing as the runner-up. Dr. Anandaram Jothibabu has sent us the final report of this exciting tournament.
Harikrishna finished sixth at the Shamkir Chess 2016. Things could have gone much better had the Indian converted the clear winning position he had against Eltaj Safarli in the final round. He made a blunder which would be quite apparent to even a beginner. Thus he ended the tournament with -1, and lost eight elo points. Mamedyarov won the event in a thrilling tiebreak against Caruana. Hari had actually beaten Shakhriyar in the second round! One can only be in awe of the Azeri player's fighting skills!
The Mayor's Cup 2016 witnessed some heavyweight upsets in the fourth round, the most notable being the wins by two upcoming youngsters — K.S. Raghunandan, who is in red-hot form these days and Shailesh Dravid, who is making his occasional brilliance a more usual affair. Chessbase India brings you an illustrated report.
Things looked slightly critical for Indians in the middle of the Asian Continental Championship 2016. With five places in the World Cup 2017 up for grabs in the Open, the competition was expectedly tough and two Indians made it. In the women's section, Bhakti Kulkarni delivered a regal performance to take home the gold. An illustrated report with analysis.
"The State Championship is something that every serious chess player has played once in his career", says Arjun Mohan who won the 54th Kerala State tournament held in the last week of May in Kannur. Arjun,who started the tournament as the second seed, won the event by a full poiny scoring 8.0/9. In this article he shares with us his favourite game from the event against the brother of the Indian Tal!
